Efficacy of reminders for increasing volunteer engagement in translating Cochrane plain language summaries: a pilot randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to pilot test the effectiveness of reminders versus no intervention for increasing the number of translated Cochrane plain language summaries (PLSs) among volunteer translators.

Study Design: Parallel-group randomised controlled trial.

Setting: Cochrane Croatia translation project.

Capacity building for knowledge translation: A survey about the characteristics and motivation of volunteer translators of Cochrane plain language summaries.

Background: Cochrane systematic reviews have plain language summaries (PLSs) that are translated into multiple languages, mostly by volunteers. We aimed to survey volunteer translators to find out their characteristics, motivation, and suggestions to further improve this translation project.

Methods: We surveyed 176 registered volunteer translators from the Cochrane Croatia PLS translation project.

Following Cochrane review protocols to completion 10 years later: a retrospective cohort study and author survey.

Objective: We analyzed patterns of publication of Cochrane review protocols (CRPs).

Study Design And Setting: We analyzed CRPs published in 2010, extracted their characteristics, and analyzed whether they were published by February 2018. We surveyed corresponding authors and Cochrane review groups to analyze reasons for nonpublication of protocols and analyzed factors predicting the time to publication.